Matt Hulse is an artist, filmmaker and writer. His films have screened at dozens of festivals and galleries in 25+ countries internationally.

His work features in Time Out’s 1000 Films to Change Your Life (Simon Cropper 2006) and A History of Experimental Film & Video (A.L.Rees 1999) and is kept at the National Media Museum (UK), National Library of Scotland,Gallaudet University (Washington DC), The Wallace Library (Rochester, NY) and Fales Library (New York University).

He has been nominated on three occasions for The Jarman Award and twice for The Margaret Tait Award.

CURATION

The Audible Picture Show (founded 2003, ongoing) International touring show of audio works for cinema by a diversity of visual artists, sound artists, film makers, animators, writers, radio makers and musicians, presented in the dark ★ FilmCraft (Dovecot, Edinburgh, 2009) Live events & screenings exploring relationships between craft & the moving image, with particular emphasis on textiles ★ Sign Language Cinema (2002-3 & 2006) Journeys into deaf moving image culture. Screenings, presentations & events at Edinburgh Filmhouse & Glasgow Film Theatre ★The Sound of Loozak (2001) Audio pieces by a diversity of makers installed in the public toilets of The Arches, Glasgow.

OTHER

Participant on the Artist As Leader Lab (2007) hosted by Pal Labs / On The Edge Research (Robert Gordon University), a focus group whose research results impacted upon Scottish Government arts and cultural policy.

Director on the Video for Dance Workshop at Glasgow Film and Video Workshop (1995) led by New York choreographer Merce Cunningham.

Experimental Film Tutor at Edinburgh College of Art (2003-2008) and ad-hoc lecturer at TUMO (Yerevan, Armenia), Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography (Armenia), RCA (London), University of Dundee, University of North Carolina (Film Studies Department), Sint Lukas School (Brussels) and Glasgow School of Art.

Collaborated with composer Max Richter creating film projection for live performances of The Blue Notebooks and Richter’s recomposition of Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ for Deutsche Grammophon. Concerts included Wordless Music Season (NYC), Unsound Festival (Krakow) & Teatro Della Pergola (Florence).

Voice-over artist and sound designer on several award-winning short films.